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Thursday, 30 September 2010

This is an international competition that recognises videos that do the best job of promoting books and bringing readers and books together.

WOW - what talented students we have at Springston School! These book trailers were made months ago, without knowing such a competition existed; Carol saw the competition later, and decided to put in three entries. Two of these got into the finals!

Friday, 17 September 2010

Morgan, Kachina and Libby were our three Year 8 students who made up the Springston 1 Team for the recent CCES Competition (poor Georgia couldn't make it because she had shingles). The girls planned (hmmm, they took all of 1 minute to do that!) scripted, filmed, and edited the whole movie within an hour and a quarter! Amazing!

The theme was 'Super Hero saves the day". You'll need to listen carefully in just a couple of places, but the acting and humour is amazing, with a few special effects thrown in. Hilarious! Awesome work, girls!!

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

It's about time we had a bit of a laugh and some fun! So, here is our CCES Competition Junior Team's Highly Commended movie! The challenge theme was 'Superhero saves the day' and, as usual, there were only two hours in which to come up with an idea, film and edit it.

Cory, Myami and Oliver worked really well together and came up with a lot of great ideas. Myami has a little song to start and end the movie (listen carefully), Cory's acting is amazing and he is very funny. Oliver has used some clever techniques to make the movie seem like a comic, and watch what happens when the Super Fairy waves his wand! Great effort guys!

Thursday, 9 September 2010

The BOT met this morning and the school will remain closed until Monday 13 September. Teachers will have been phoning the parents of children on their class lists to inform you of this.

Our water and sewerage are all functioning as normal. If you have any concerns about this, please send your children with a water bottle.

On Monday morning all parents are welcome to stay as long as you like to assure yourselves that your children are coping well. You are also most welcome to have a cup of tea in the staffroom from 9:00 am.

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

How are you all? Safe and warm, I hope, and taking great care of each other.

How are you keeping busy during the school closure? It will be at least Monday before we see you again, so if you're lucky enough to have electricity and remain in your own home, then you might like to check out all our class blogs, and do some of the activities and games your teachers have put up for you over the term.

Don't forget that the Library blog also has some games and puzzles. This is also a great time to get out your board games and packs of cards, or to kick a ball around with friends.

If you're in the Media Team, you might like to log in to the News Blog and post some of your news and experiences to share with others. You can email me if you want to know any passwords etc. Or, anyone can post a Comment here to let us know how you are and what you are doing.

Some of you might like to sign in to ToonDoo and create a cartoon about the Earthquake. You can see some great examples here. Email me for a login and password if you have an idea! I'll put it on the blog!

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

ECE centres and schools are closed for children and students until Monday 13 September. Please go to the Ministry of Education website for futher information. Call 0800-225-580 if you have any queries about the website information. A further decision will be made on Thursday afternoon.

Saturday, 4 September 2010

This is a genuine report, of an extensive earthquake in the Christchurch and Canterbury region, here in New Zealand.

The quake was reportedly 7.1 on the Richter scale and struck at 4:35 am on Saturday 4 September. There have been many significant aftershocks. We are not sure how this will affect our school and families at this stage. Hopefully school families are well-prepared following the extensive learning from last year about how to prepare for a major disaster.

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

'Movie Stars' is an option for the Junior children to choose at Choice and Challenge time.

They choose the parts they want to play and then practise their lines and choose their costumes. One of the children is the Director, and they film the play on one of the Flip video cameras. Then we take it over to the big screen in the Library and watch our movies.

Here are some snippets of the groups we have had so far. We hope you enjoy them!

Our Middle age group Multimedia team (Emily, Megan and Courtney) created the winning slideshow for their group, and also gained the overall multimedia trophy.

They had only 2 hours to create a multimedia presentation, and the topic was ANZAC. Each team was given a folder of images to choose from, some sounds, and text which had to be included on the first few slides (each of which, they were told, had to be 20 seconds long). The instruction was that they had to create a presentation for a war museum. Buttons were also to be used, to take the viewer backwards and forwards.

Here is a movie version of their presentation. The judge commented on how well the team worked together, and how focused they were. She also said that they captured the mood of ANZAC Day very well in their presentation.

We'll be posting the entries from the other two teams (Moviemaking) over the next few days!